Yahoo! News MIAMI (Reuters) - NASA plans to send two astronauts aboard the International Space Station out on a spacewalk on Saturday to try to fix an ammonia leak in a cooling system on one of the station's solar arrays, the U.S. space agency said on Friday. The ...
Zee News The astronauts -- Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn -- have removed "a 260-pound pump controller box that may be the source of an ammonia leak on the International Space Station and replaced it with a spare", NASA said in a statement late evening.
89.3 KPCC Christopher Cassidy and Thomas Marshburn installed the new pump after removing the old one suspected of spewing flakes of frozen ammonia coolant two days earlier. They uncovered "no smoking guns" responsible for the leak and consequently kept a ...
San Francisco Chronicle The prospects of success grew as the minutes, then hours passed and no frozen flecks of ammonia appeared. Mission Control said it appeared as though the leak may have been plugged, although additional monitoring over the coming weeks will be needed ...
The Guardian Ammonia is used to cool the power systems that operate each of the station's eight solar arrays. The leak is on the far left side of the station's truss structure, in an ammonia loop that astronauts previously tried to troubleshoot during a spacewalk ...
Forbes A problem with the station was first noted on Thursday, when Station Commander Chris Hadfield noticed a steady stream of ammonia “snowflakes” on the outside of ...
